Lunes
Found two members we have been looking for! #twoweekslater... #mostperfectchildyouwillevermeet #iwilltaketwoplease
- they are my favorite. The daughter is five. She's the perfect child. I'm sold. We haven't seen them or been able to get a hold of them for two weeks but felt prompted to drop by and they were home! #tendermercies
Martes
Me: "How many sisters does it take to open a glass of salsa?" Hna Voss: "One elder." *finally opens it* "YEAH! ....it's like that final moment of labor."
- pretty self explanatory haha! That was one tough salsa jar though! Took us a good fifteen minutes before she finally got it haha!
District meeting with ZLs
- Elder Morris and Menge came and were "member presents" for our role plays to help critique us all haha! I love them. They are awesome. Also, fun fact, Elder Menge and his last companion (Elder Lee who's home now) were the ones who drove me to the mission office when I went home...back before I knew him. So there's that!
Lady on the bus: "are you twins?" #nice #haventgottenthatoneyet
Lessons all fall through...Dinner at Costco #happyplace #gotapicture #sawamember
Investigator! #doorsteplesson #pickingupforchurch!!
- dropped in on her and she was actually home! This was also prompted by the Spirit (as are most of the decisions we make) and we invited them to church. Guess what? Then they actually came!!!!
Miércoles
Referral!! #realintent #comingtochurch??
- This lady was a referral and we taught her and her son for the first time. They are great. She is literally the definition of real intent (we hope!) and was very eager to set our next appointment. We will be seeing her tomorrow actually!
^^landlord knew us #"youtheelders??" #whenmissionariesleftagoodimpression #somanysolidseeds
- Her landlord was outside with a bunch of other people. Asked if we were the elders. Said back "with sandy" (the storm we would presume) that the elders came and helped him clean out some flooding and that they used to help him all the time. Said they even went home and came back to visit him with their families! Look at that :)
Hermana: "I used to make things really spicy" Hermano: "used to???" #dinner #mexicanbrownies
- had dinner and a little lesson with a member family. The food was a little spicy and so she told us this story about when she cooked for the elders once back in the day when they first were investigating the church. Her husband disagrees with the idea that her food is no longer spicy haha!
Jueves
Two Jewish boys after speaking to us in Hebrew: "*coming closer* are you Jewish?" Hna Voss: "no! Mormons!" #youwishwewerejewish #wewishyouweremormon
- speaks for itself haha! We walked by them once on our way home for dinner and they spoke to us in Hebrew but we didn't realize it so we kept walking. On the way back after dinner they asked in English if we were Jewish. My compañera, the awesome thing that she is said "no! We're Mormons!!" It was great haha :)
Crowded sardine bus: "'scuse me, thank you, thank you, I'm not a size two!" #awesome #ownit #annoyingkids #heavenhelpthefuturegenerations #takingnotesforraisingmykids #inappropriatemusic #ihaveapamphletforyou #lawofchastity #theworldisfallingapart
- this all goes for the hour that was trying to get somewhere; I forget where. This lady couldn't get off the bus and in her attempt to do so said the above quote. Also, children nowadays need help and I was definitely taking notes for what my children are not gonna be doing. Goodness gracious.
Awesome lesson on the street #isabel #gaveherabom
- this lady was so cool! We actually saw her again and had a porch lesson. Hopefully we will be able to see her this week!
English class #creepyguyafuera #elderswaitingtowalkusout
- we taught English class and afterwards we came out and the elders were there. They said there was a creepy guy outside who'd been across the street looking at the church for two hours that the other members had pointed out to them. Cause it was late and dark they waited for us to, in the words of Elder Creager, "make sure you didn't get followed." :)
When you live down the street from a Jewish synagogue and it's fiesta time #gettingcrazy #drunkjews #drivingbyblastingtheirfiddlerontheroof #tryingtoprayhere
- also self explanatory. Some big holiday or something cause their place was pumping for about a week!
*Studying* *hears thunder* *moves curtain* "oh, it's raining!" Hna Voss: "My guess is that today is going to be a little bit significantly colder."
- see second note for Saturday haha
Under Pressure #queen #missmyclassicrock
- heard this song today in our travels. Also, the grocery store we shop at has very good classic rock as well. Didn't hear anything big today when shopping, but they're on the right vein haha
#deeeeeeeeepclean #whenyourhousehasntbeencleanedinprobablyoverayear #cleanlinessisgodliness #lovecleaning #neverthoughtI'dsaythat
Me: "Why do we always take pictures on bad hair days." Elder Weisler: "What exactly constitutes a bad hair day?"
- when we were all posing for a picture after the missionary activity and I was standing next to Elder Weisler and said the above. Don't actually have that picture yet. We will work on that!
Elder Creager: "...that's the man's job. ...the man's job." Me: "What's the man's job?" Elder Creager: "The man's job is any job the woman doesn't wanna do." #iftheresmenialthingstobedoneinthehousewhobetterthanthemanofthehousetodothem? #thereinlieshappinessbrother #josephsmith
- we tried to help clean up from the brownies and Elder Creager just kept saying xyz was "the man's job." When I finally questioned him on it that was his response haha 😂 it reminded me of the quote in the restoration movie by Joseph Smith when the Scottish guy asks about why Joseph does all these "menial chores." Probably my favorite
SábadoCold cold cold cold #lotsofrain
Me: "I got a lot much more better..." #whenyoucantenglishorspanish
Attempted findings #whydoesnoonewantsalvation? #theydo #justhaventfoundemyet
Simplified planning with the STLs #wedontknowwhatwearedoing
Cold cold cold cold #lotsofviento
Domingo
Attempting to get to our family for church... #gonnabelate??
- we couldn't make it to her and they weren't answering the phone so we went to the church so make sure we weren't late and then she came with her family anyway! It was awesome!!!
#lessons #smellslikeabaptism #whenthelessonsareonpointforourpeople #ilovechurch
- The little boy is eight and really wants to be baptized :)
FIIIIIIIIINDIIIIIIING #whenallyoursetlessonsfallthrough #anddontgetdinner #...again #justmissionarywork #buttheLordblessesyoulikenobodysbusiness #teachwhenyoufind
- our lesson and dinner appointment fell through. It was at 5th ave and 36th street. We live at 23rd ave and 81st street. ...to say the least, didn't have time to go home and eat before prime time, so we ate dinner after nightly planning. But that was when we found the family on the train as well! The blessings just never cease!!
When your members really like emojis... #ghettophone #showsupassquares #throwstable #whenshesendsyoufiftysquaresandtwoquestionmarks #aaaaahhhh
- we have really old phones. And they can't get emojis or text that's in other languages. A member sent us a whole text and it was just all these squares on our phone. We sat there wondering if we should just call her and then she sent us two question marks. We called and she just started talking and we were so confused haha! But got it all figured out :) (oh, and Hermana Voss makes the joke of throwing the table when we just can't even haha so that's where that comes from)
Weekly call in report #whenyourDLremindsyouyouonlyhaveoneweekleft #shhh #wedontspeakofit #bestdistrictevercomingtoaclose #bringonweek12
- We better give this last week everything we've got! (And guess who Elder Weisler asked to give the workshop for our last district meeting together! Yep. This'll be fun haha)
Lunes
*working out* Hna Voss: "The question is will my next companion do morning workouts with me?" ...or will I be on my own for that one again...? #transfers #gettinganxious #allthingsintheLordstime
- from this morning while we laid there trying to motivate ourselves to follow Bruce (he is the voice of the guy on this exercise app we're allowed to have. The voice is Australian. That's why we named him Bruce haha. We were having a rough time getting rolling this morning haha!)
Anyway, this is the fun stuff of the week! Hope you are doing well!! I love you lots!!!
Mucho mucho mucho amor,
Hermana Karra Gourley 😊💛
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